Reply To: Microbes/Microbial life in the garden

[Somatek]

The Intelligent Gardener by Steve Solomon really drives that home; that you need to start with properly balanced soil as well as proper composting methods to keep soil fertility high.  Just because you’re using organic methods doesn’t mean nutrients magically appear.  Energy is constant, it isn’t created or destroyed but just changes form.  If you harvest a lbs of biomass from your “living” soil then you have depleted the soil of that much and need to replace it.